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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?

Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009

to study Zambia’s regional agricultural trade flows and the impact of the SADC Trade Protocol (SADC-TP). Zambia’s volume … of trade is significantly related to most of the standard gravity variables. The results indicate that Zambia has been … largely trading below potential, especially with respect to exports. There have been improvements in Zambia’s trade flows …

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Renewed Growth and Poverty Reduction in Zambia

Bigsten, Arne; Tengstam, Sven - 2010

The Zambian economy has grown relatively fast over the last decade. This article discusses the challenge of using these growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the population and reduce poverty. The poverty head count index is found to have declined between 1998 and 2004 by about...

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Increasing Returns to Marketing in Zambian Maize Markets

Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2010

198 pairs of maize markets in Zambia and correlated random effects linear and tobit estimators were used to model the …

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Zambia's structural adjustment program : a tool for survival or just another economic experiment?

Mwale, Kaemba - 1999

When Zambia embarked on a Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) in 1992, there was tremendous hope for an economic turn … performance of SAP in Zambia. Nationals should play a larger role in the planning and implementation of future economic reforms in … Zambia and a national safety-net fund for the retrenched should be established. Investment in the agricultural and …

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